Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 7997;andrew.cmu.edu;Ted Anderson Received: from beak.andrew.cmu.edu via trymail for +dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl@andrew.cmu.edu (->+dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl) (->ota+space.digests) ID ; Fri, 16 Mar 90 02:43:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 02:43:04 -0500 (EST) Subject: SPACE Digest V11 #156 SPACE Digest Volume 11 : Issue 156 Today's Topics: NASA Headline News for 03/15/90 (Forwarded) Payload Status for 03/15/90 (Forwarded) Hubble postdoctoral fellowship program established (Forwarded) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 16 Mar 90 07:17:59 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: NASA Headline News for 03/15/90 (Forwarded) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, March 15, 1990 Audio: 202/755-1788 ----------------------------------------------------------------- This is NASA Headline News for Thursday, March 15..... Roll out of the Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery to Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-B has been delayed until no earlier than 7:30 P.M., Eastern time, today. There is technical concern over a nut that secures a seal in the orbiter nose wheel. Engineers at KSC report that a problem developed with the nose wheel nut on the orbiter Columbia. To allay any concern over the Discovery's nose wheel, engineers will check it out thoroughly today. A decision will be made this afternoon if more work must be done on the nosewheel hardware. An Intelsat communications satellite is in a low Earth orbit, today, following a suspected malfuction in the upper stage of a commercial Titan 3 booster. The Intelsat 6 was launched yesterday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The objective was to place the $150 million, 5-ton spacecraft into a geostationary orbit. But for some reason, the satellite did not separate from the upper stage. Controllers fired the apogee kick motor on the satellite to separate the two. That left the Intelsat 6 in a low Earth orbit rather than its planned 22,300 mile high position. Reports indicate the satellite may stay in orbit about 12 days before re-entering the atmosphere. Today, NASA unveils the first of what it hopes will become a fleet of mobile teacher resource centers. The fully-equipped tractor-trailer contains a variety of work stations for teachers who may not have access to teacher resouce centers located at NASA field centers throughout the United States. The trailers contain computers which allow users to access an electronic information library, video tape dubbing equipment and still photo copiers. The mobile information vehicle is part of a larger NASA educational program called...LASER...which stands for "Learning About Science, Engineering and Research". The Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the Galileo spacecraft is operating normally on its long looping trajectory. It's 62 million Miles from Earth today as it slowly pulls away from the gravitational influence of the sun and heads back toward Earth. Galileo has traveled more than 256 million Miles since launch and has about 391 millon Miles to go before its first Earth gravity assist in December. ******** ----------------------------------------------------------------- Here's the broadcast schedule for public affairs events on NASA Select TV. All times are Eastern. Today...... Hubble Space Telescope briefings from Goddard Space Flight Center. Monday, March 19..... From Johnson space center 9:30 A.M. STS-31 flight directors mission overview 10:30 A.M. Secondary middeck student experiments 11:30 A.M. Sts-31 flight crew news conference Wednesday, March 21....... 1-2:30 P.M. Total Quality Management in Action Colloquium All events and times are subject to change without notice. --------------------------------------------------------------- These reports are filed daily, Monday through Friday, at 12 noon, Eastern time. ----------------------------------------------------------------- A service of the Internal Communications Branch, (LPC), NASA Headquarters. ------------------------------ Date: 16 Mar 90 07:20:27 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Payload Status for 03/15/90 (Forwarded) Daily Status/KSC Payload Management and Operations 03-15-90 -STS-31R HST (at VPF) - Support was provided yesterday for the.simulated launch countdown (S0044). Also, HST final closeouts ops and PDT testing along with west cell VPHD alignment was worked yesterday and will continue today. -STS-32R SYNCOM/LDEF (at SAEF-2) - LDEF deintegration continues. -STS-35 ASTRO-1/BBXRT (at O&C) - The final MLI installation was worked yesterday. Today preps for payload transfer to the canister will be performed. -STS-40 SLS-1 (at O&C) - Yesterday preps for the ECS systems test were performed. Today the systems test, ECS systems test and experiment functional testing will continue. -STS-42 IML (at O&C) - Staging activities on racks 3, 4, 7, 9, 11, and 12 were worked yesterday and will continue today. -STS-45 Atlas-1 (at O&C) - Yesterday installation of the pallet joint kit on frame 4 was active. This work will continue today along with orthogrid hardpoint installation. ------------------------------ Date: 16 Mar 90 07:21:48 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Hubble postdoctoral fellowship program established (Forwarded) Paula Cleggett-Haleim Headquarters, Washington, D.C. March 15, 1990 RELEASE: 90-38 HUBBLE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM ESTABLISHED NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), Baltimore, Md., in cooperation with astronomical institutions throughout the United States, have taken a major step toward creating the astronomy leaders of tomorrow with the inauguration of the Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. The largest such program of its kind, the Hubble Fellowship Program will help ensure that some of the best young scientific talent in astronomy and physics will be awarded an opportunity to conduct important research on challenging discoveries using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The launch of the HST on April 12, 1990, will usher in a new "golden age" for astronomy. HST is the flagship of NASA's Great Observatories Program, where major scientific spacecraft will be lofted above Earth's atmosphere to yield an unprecedented view of the universe across a broad swath of the electromagnetic spectrum. The vast amount of information returned by NASA's Great Observatories will have an enormous impact on modern day astronomy. There will be a tremendous requirement for skilled astronomers to conduct research and analysis on the data generated by NASA's space astrophysics programs of the 1990's and beyond. The Hubble Fellowship Program will fund research opportunities for a significant portion of the pool of approximately 200 Ph.D. astronomers that graduate annually. Up to 15 new Hubble Fellowships will be added per year, for 3-year terms. Eventually the program will support a pool of up to 45 astronomers annually. The highly qualified post-doctoral scientists selected for this program will have an opportunity to conduct HST-related research of their choice at participating astronomical institutions throughout the U.S. To avoid an excessive concentration of talent at any one astronomy institution, no more than two fellows per year are approved for any single institution. The Hubble Fellows will collaborate with university-based scientists on HST data analysis. As archival data becomes available from HST in subsequent years, future Hubble Fellows will have an opportunity to analyze this data as well. Candidates are selected annually on the basis of merit (publications, research proposal, academic achievements) after which the STScI Director makes the final selection. FIRST HUBBLE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM RECIPIENTS Pawel Artymowicz, University of California at Santa Cruz Stefi A. Baum, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Michael J. Bolte, University of California at Santa Cruz Laura Danly, Space Telescope Science Institute Andrew S. Fruchter, University of California at Berkeley Neal S. Katz, Princeton University Observatory, Princeton, N.J. Young-Wook Lee, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Mario L. Matteo, The Carnegie Institute of Washington Charles C. Steidel, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Manfred Vogel, Space Telescope Science Institute Rene A.M. Walterbos, The John Hopkins University Quinde Wang, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Janet H. Wood, University of Texas at Austin Brian P. Yanny, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. - end - Beginning March 15, 1990, NASA news releases and other NASA information will be available electronically on CompuServe and GEnie, the General Electric Network for Information Exchange. On the same date, NASA information on the Dialcom electronic service will be discontinued. For information on CompuServe, call 1-800- 848-8199 and ask for representative 176. For information on GEnie, call 1-800-638-9636. ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V11 #156 *******************